SpaceGhost

A few things of the top of my head, The Jack in the Box that's at 610 and San Felipe was originally at Westheimer and Mid Lane. The building was one of the old style "tal, small foot printl" JITB restaurants. It was torn down and a furniture store called "Surprises" was built, which later became Bo Concept which recently closed along with everything else in that shopping center on Mid Lane. The Goode Company Taqueria on Kirby was originally a Del Taco. The current Del Taco on Westheimer was previously a KFC. After the KFC closed it became a place called "Window Magic". The building has been the same throughout with Del Taco using a bunch of the original KFC building features like the metal overhang roof, the original front door location, and the original drive thru window placement. The Taco Cabana at 3007 S. Shepherd opened as a Rally's I could of sworn that at one point it was a Taco Cabana but I can't find anything to corroborate that.

Anyone know what the Foodarama at 5665 Beechnut was? Seems like it may have been built as a Weingartens but was it ever a Safeway?

Walgreens is moving from it's current location at 3900 Westhimer down to the former Safeway caddy corner across Weslayan. I believe that the Walgreens location started as a Sav-On Drugs (May have been something different at the start though) and the new location of course started as a Safeway was sold to Apple Tree and was eventually bought by rice in 1994. The location closed in 2012 and was sold to The Fresh Market which only operated around 7 months. After sitting vacant for some time Walgreens has decided to move in. Unfortunately all of the Safeway look on the interior was lost during The Fresh Market, about half of the original Safeway exterior including the original two sided entrance was lost as well.

Found this on it: "The Hooley Haunted Mansion in Texas was a bed and breakfast in the 70s. It was also the site of a number of strange deaths." It seems to have been featured in the book 13: An American Horror Story by Seph Lawless. A Google Search doesn't turn up anything fruitful. In fact putting a date restriction on to have nothing that was published after Oct. 1 2014 show up in the results leaves almost nothing. The only references are from HAIF (actual site not the forum) and a bug that allows Google to update content in the Latest Forum Posts section without modifying the published date. So while I have never heard of the place, I would venture to say one of the following: Possibly it's real but due to legal reasons a fake name was given Or it's fake, and the book is a work of fiction It might be a real mansion, with a fake location of Houston

The last Rice Epicurean is still family owned. In addition to that Food Town, and Food Fair are still owned by Gerland's. Sellers Bros. is still independent as far as I know. Also a bunch of the Asian grocery stores are independent.

Yeah it looks like it. http://www.yelp.com/biz/g-and-g-model-shop-houston

Yeah the property owner died. The surviving family then opened a property dispute. So when the lease that was valid when the owner died, finally expired. A new lease couldn't be granted due to ownership disputes. Eventually the restaurant just relocated. I believe they're out in Katy now. I'm not sure if a deal was ever met on the ownership of the property. Even if it was though, that strip of land is nothing like it once was in terms of businesses. So you'd probably be hard pressed to find someone willing to take that big of a lot that they'd have to tear down anyways. (I don't think that building has been maintained since 2009).

I'm not sure if Costco was in control of Price Club when this location was closed. According to this article the merger started around June 17th 1993. So the companies probably weren't joined until later that year. According to this article when the locations fate was decided a notice was issued by "Price Co." a shortening of Price Club's cooperate name (Price Company). Based on how quickly the location had to close (less than 10 days notice), it probably was a way for Sol Price to help shore up the company for its sale. As for rebuilding in Houston I would assume that the reason that Price Club started in Houston was that FedMart (his earlier project) had done very well here. It even did so well that a Houston location gave Sam Walton the idea for Sam's Club, but I digress. The FedMart locations where built up and had a supply chain, I'm sure that Sol Price was depending on being able to reestablish that chain when coming back to Houston. Although with the way that FedMart went I wouldn't doubt that suppliers would of been weary of dealing with him. I would also point to the fact that the two Texas locations where truly on their own. Given time I'm sure infrastructure would of been developed but given the fact that the company was going through a merger the locations where dumped.

Yeah you're kinda barking up the wrong tree here. These forums are for Houston, Tx related discussions. Your best bet is to find a boot or Sakowitz related forum. If this fails maybe contact Sakowitz?

I was able to find these: Space City News Front Page A band called Josefus that has a few pics from performances at Milby Park "I also have fond memories of spending many Sundays at Milby Park where local groups would line up to play. It was like a mini Woodstock every performance. If you remember any more that I'm forgetting, please let me know." That's all I could find with some light Googling. I'm sure there's more online to be found though.

Here this might be of some help. Two maps of Camp Logan

Well maybe so but it has been there since the 1940's at least. It would be great to have it as a route to I-10.

Does anyone know why/when O'brien Road was closed? I've checked Google Earth and it has been connected to FM 1464 since at least he 1940's. Although this was during/after the reservoir was built so I can't tell whether or not that had anything to do with it being closed. The first image that I can use to prove that it was closed was from 2002. Although that's only going by the gates that the county installed. If anyone has any info they could share that would be great.